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MAIN SH E E T—Parti I. ’ ALL THE LATEST \ T EV ' . CAN ATLANTA, (IA., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1!U3. MAIN SHEET-Part IL ALL THE LATEST NEWS. Miss Wilson Breaks An Elevator Barrier HIS NEW PLAN Noted M ississi ppian Explains Why He Will Urge Repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment and Modification of the Fourteenth Northern and Southern People Both to Be Pitied for Attitude They Take Toward Question So Vital to the Race, He Declares. WASHINGTON, May lO.—Anent Senator 1 ardaman's determination to push resolutions in the Senate to the repeal of the Fifteenth amendment, which gives the negro the ballot, and to modify the Fourteenth amendment concerning the social rights of that race, the noted Hississippian has writ ten the following for The Sunday A merican. BY JAMES K. VARDAMAN. U. S. Senator from Mississippi. T HE importance of the race problem is rightly understood by compartively few people. Uninformed men and women of the North carelessly push It aside with the absurd statement that, "it is a Southern question and should be left alone to the white man of the South to settle." And on the other ' hand, there are a great many stu pid men and women of the South who seeing no way around the diffl- (Silty, hold it to be an insoluble problem, and content themselves to let matters drift. For the two classes, I have no other feeling than that of commis- eration. Possibly. they cannot lelp it. They are as ignorant of the real tendency of things—as in capable of understanding the dan gers Involved in the policy of do ing nothing, as the light-hearted child who gathers flowers from the rosebush beneath whose foliage Is ( Oiled a viper ready to strike it to death. This question is not a po litical question—It is not a sectional issue. But. on the contrary, it is a great national question. And its solution rests with the nation at large No greater question ever agitated the minds of a libertv lov ing people, the purity of whose blood and the permanency of whose civilization depend upon the right treatment of the question at this time. The' Indiscriminate commingling of the races, the enjoyment of equal political privileges and breaking down of all racial barriers—social and political—ultimately result in the amalgamation of the races, that will mean race deterioration, mor al and intellectual decay, and in the end the overthrow and destruc- ton of the civilization which glori fies the beginning of the twentieth century. If I could have my way about things, 1 should exclude from the United States every race '•V .color, every specimen of man *tnat can not amalgamate with the white race without being a detri ment to the white race. We do not want any people in America that can not be assimilated, that can not be absorbed by the domi nant race without resulting in race deterioration. .Great Mistake Is Cited. A great mistake was made when the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments were adopted. Or, perhaps I should state history more accurately if I should say when these amendments were proclaimed a pert of the Constitution. They were never constitutionally adopt ed. It is a matter of history, I think, that the voters of the States never gave their approval to these legislative enormities. They are entirely out of harmony with the truth, and grossly violative of the spirit of the times. Abraham Lincoln never for one moment in all of his career favored giving the ballot to the negro. In the memor able debate with Mr. Douglas, in which the race question was a burning Issue. Mr. Lincoln gave ex pression to these words: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the so cial and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters and jurors of ne groes. nor of qualifying them to hold ... nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say, in addition l,o this, that there is a physical difference between thg white and black races, - which I believe w ill forever forbid the two races living on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they can not so live while they do re main together, there must be the position of Superior and inferior, and I as much as any. other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” If we are to have a government by law, there must he in ihe law a recognition of the racial differences. A law suited to the governments of the white man of America—“the heir of ail the ages in the foremost flies of time”—can not be adapt ed to the government of this civ ilization—veneered savage, but a few generations out of the barbar ism of Africa. The white man is a self-governing creature. The negro has not sustained the power of self-development. The only civ ilization he ever enjoyed was in culcated by the superior race, and that civilization lias lasted with him only so long as lie was under the influence and control of the white man who inculcated it. When left to himself the negro has uni versally drifted back to the barbar ism of the jungles. With all the Christian world has been able to do for him in the last hundred years in Haiti, he is to-day the worshiper of the voodoo, and can nibalism is not distasteful to him. nor does it shock his conscience. U. S. Experience Discouraging, Our experience in the Unjled States Is quite as discouraging as the Haitian example. Notwith standing that the white man has built for him schools and cnllpges, cared for his deaf and dumb and insane and his blind, helped him by example and precept, the negro race Ih America is growing more crimi nal. Indeed, it is a hundredfold more criminal In the v ear of our Lord 1913 than it was in 1861. In the State of Pennsylvania, where the negro is only abeut 2 per cent of the total population, more than 17 per cent of the male criminals of that State are negroes; and 30 per cent of the females criminals are of the colored race. In the city of Wash ington, the negroes are about 28 per cent of the total papula- Continued on Page 2. Column 4, This Section. J AMES K. VARDAMAN. Senator from Mississippi, who plans to solve the negro problem by abolishing the Fif teenth Amendment. Capitol Operator, Apologizing, Lets 'J.essie Woodrow’ Ride, When She Presents Card. WASHINGTON, May 10.—“Sony, rriias, but you ran not ride on this ele vator,” said an elevator operator in the Capitol this afternoon to a pretty, fair-haired girl. She wafl about to enter one of the members’ elevators on the House side. “But 1 Was told to go up this way. slip quietly answered. ”1 am Mils Wilson.” "Sorry; it's against the rules," he reiterated, but as he took a card from j her hand and read "Jessie Woodrow Wilson," he quickly became apologetic and said: "Step right in, miss!” And in she stepped and up she rode. Washington Dazed by Half-and-Half Gown Mrs. Gulick Changes Costumes When She Turns Around, and Society Is Startled. WASHINGTON, May 10.-The half- and-half gown of Mrs. Mason Gulick j lias again blinded Washington socie ty, which temporarily lost its sight the other day at Mrs. Preston Gib son's cubist gown. Mrs. Gulick appears to be wearing at first sight a pretty creation of blue flowered silk, black hat trimmed with j biue and artistic lapis lazuli earrings. Then you look again and behold she i has on a gown of plain blue silk, no | earrings and a plain blue hat. The reason for this seeming delu sion is that Mrs. Gulick’s gown ‘s. flowered silk on one-half and on that side she wears an earring. On the other side it Is plain silk and she wears no earring and the hat Is un- fri-mmed. Bryans Hold Party In a Grape Arbor Garden Reception to House Members Hitherto Given Only at White House by President Himself. WASHINGTON, May 10.—The members of the House and "the la dies of their families,” to quote the invitation, were the guests in whose honor Secretary and Mrs. Brvan tapped the flowing grape Juice bar rel Thursday afternoon at a recep tion at Calundet Place. Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark w*>re not present, despite the recent TMark-Bryan “reconciliation.” Secretary and Mrs. Bryan received their guests in the garden. Refresh ments were served under the grape arbor. Representative and Mrs. Un derwood and other Congressmen helped receive. Heretofore official garden parties have been given only at the White House. Old Southern Woman Lost in Los Angeles Widow of Confederate Army Officer and Her Granddaughter Missing for Weeks. LOS ANGELES. CAL., May 10. Lost in Los Angeles by her friends, the Daughters of the Confederacy. Mrs. J. L. Allcorn, 90 years old, the widow of General James L. Allcorn, a distinguished Confederate army offi cer and one-time Governor of the State of Mississippi, is being hunted by police detectives. With her is Miss Lillie Ennis, of Friars Point, Miss., her 16-year-old granddaughter. The two women arrved in Los An geles on the evening of April 22 in seahch of George H. English, a neph ew of Mrs. Allcorn. Falling to locate their relative, they sought the aid of Local membership of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Since April 28 nothing has been heard from the two women, despite many inquiries made by the Daugh ters of the Confederacy. Cowgirl Goes From Hospital to Altar Member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Arises to Wed in Arena. NEW YORK. May 10.—Miss Goldie Griffiths, star cowgirl with the Buf falo Bill show, who was removed to Bellevue Hospital last night after be ing thrown from her horse in Mad ison Square Garden, left the hospital this afternoon and mounted her cow pony and darted down to City Hall to get a marriage license to wed Harry Smith, a cbwboy, in the arena to-night. "I allowed I couldn’t get well if 1 stayed in that hospital any longer, and besides I didn’t want to disap point Harry." said Goldie to-night as she threw a saddle over a broncho. “We are golhg to be married on horseback, minister and all, and I sure hope the cayuses don’t throw the wedding." Smith and Miss Griffiths are na- o£ S&a Francisco. All AtlantaToBe Tagged Monday Pretty Girls to Seek Charity|Fund No Escapingthe Fair Canvassers! Sheltering Arms Workers Will Be at Their Downtown Posts Bright and Early. To-morrow morning t-arly every body in Atlanta will be tagged! Bocleiv with all if* splendid para phernalia of Paris gowns, paradise plumes that will make the bird-lovers shiver, and other accessories to a perfect presentation of fashionable woman, will be on the streets display ing Tag If some pretty voting gir! with a smile that is worth a thousand dol lars waves a small slip Of puper be-, fftre you marked "Tag,” be sure that you do not clasp your pocket book tightly arid run away, but get out a piece of silver and take your medi cine like a man. And there will be young girls et&tioned at the corners, and in the public thoroughfares so lorelv that even the pagan gods who sometimes visited the earth would have turned and handed them tjlelr winged swndals, or magic wands, or whatever they happened to be car rying at the time, just as the modern young man is going to do with his contribution to the Sheltering Arms, Glorious Opportunity. Tay Day IS one of the glorious op portunities one has to do something really good. During all the year no one ever asks for help for the Shel tering Arms, but when Tag Day comes, they are just naturally ex pected to give something for the up- ‘Seers' Got Million Out of New Yorkers Chicago Attorney Uncovers Work Ings of Immense Clairvoy ant Trust. CHICAGO, May 10— Mac Lav Hoyne, State's Attorney, asserted in Judge Scanlan’s Court to-day that the so-called "Clairvoyant Trust,” which has been operating in Chicago for eighteen months, originated In New York City, where its print'!pals had swindled their victims out of f 1,000,000. Mr. Hoyne left Chicago several days ago with Joseph M. Ryan, alias Professor Charles T Crane, a clair voyant, who was brought here from Lusk. Wyoming, charged with swin dling. The State's Attorney said that Ryan had divulged many of the se crets of the clique. "He admits that the whole business is a swindle." said Mr. Hoyne. “He admitted dividing the spoils with cer tain politician*. Ryan said that Chi cago had been a good town to work In. owing to police protection." I SURE C. A. STELZLE Keir Hardie Woos English Suffragist Alleged Love Letters Found Among ( ‘General’ Drummond’s Bomb Plots. LONDON, May 10. The Daily Ex press says: “An astonishing discov ery was made by the police during their recent investigation of the suf fragette activities. "In a search for documents in the keep of one of the foremost charities in the city. If everybody knew what the splen did Sheltering Arms women are doing they would be even happier for their gift-giving Once a year these women, assisted by a bevy of beautiful matrons and lovely youhg girls, engage in the great game of Tag. They do not run around like the little children and say, "I got youl* tag.” They Just make themt»eJves at tractive, stand at some place ap pointed. and modestly hand out a lit tle paper tag, for which you may pay T . Continued on Page 2, Column 4, This Section. offices and domiciles of the malignant suffragettes there came into their hands a bundle of letters which proved not to be bomb plots but the outpourings of an overflowing heart. They were notes from a love sick Socialist member of Parliament to a lady who for some time has tajten a prominent part in the militant move ment. "Naturally the police will not di vulge the contents of these previous letters, but it can be stated that they are of an astounding character. There seems to be little likelihood that the letters will ever*reach the public, but the poilce have had at leusl an amus ing experience." The Daily Express does not men tion the names of the parties to the correspondence, but it is reported in newspaper circles that the So cialist M. P. is Keir Hardie and the lady "General” Flora Drummond. Admits a Chemist Can Create Life British Scientist Thinks It Must Be of Low Form, and Cannot Dispel Religion. Special Cable to The American. LONDON. May 10.—Professor Sims Woodhead. lecturing before the Royal Society of the Aria, discussed the origin of life. He said he agreed with Professor Schafer that It was quite posaible a very low form of life might be cre ated by a chemist, but he insisted that was "no reason to change om - belief in God." Cut-and-Dried Machine Methods Will Meet With Severe Setback From Commissioners if They're Attempted by Any Presbyterians, Dr. S. S. Palmer, of Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. Waitland Alexan der, of Pittsburg, Are Leading Candidates Before Assemblies. By REV. CHAS. A. STELZLE. (Who will be a leading figure in the great Presbyterian Assembly.) R ELIGIOUS prejudice dies hard, | but religious pension produces a devotion . which is unrivaled ! in the affairs of men. Both these sen timents will be typified in the great ten-day congress of Presbyterians to be held in Atlanta beginning next Thursday, when for the first time iti their history tfyrre will gather to gether the three leading Presbyterian I General Assemblies, representing ■ practically the combined Presbyte rian membership of the United I States There are a dozen denomtna- , tions in tills country, following the Presbyterian system and doctrine but tho Presbyterian Uhureh in the United States of America (Northern). I the Presbyterian (’hutch In the Unit-' ed Slates (Southern), and the United Presbyterian 'TlUich of North Amer tea, which ary in meet .in Atlanta, contain about 2,000,000 of the 2,500,- I 000 members in the-e dozen denom- ina tions. 1.400 Commissioners. There will be 1,400 commissioners in the three bodies—half of them lay men The day sessions will be ile- j voted to business, but at night there will be great popular meetings in the Auditorium, in which the combined I assemblies will unite. Politics are supposed to be tabooed In a general Assembly, but neverthe less there will be some tnteresttne "contests." especially for the inodcra- torship of tile Northern Assembly. I’ has frequently happened that the can didate wiio has been loo aggressive in his efforts to secure this older has been strongly rebuked by the commissioners hy the election of a dark horse,” and In recent years these aspirants Tor olflee have left the management of their campaigns to Intimate and trusted friends who are both wise and discreet. do-lb* a dozen or more men will cotne to the assembly with their "moderator’s sermon" packed In their- grip, for who can tell which of them may he "called" to preach on next Sunday morning as the first man in the Church—and Incidentally to have his sermon most heartily commended by one group and most fiercely criti cised by another—for there is every shade of belief on every subject among these very human commis sioners. And I hat's what makes an assembly meeting so mighty Inter esting. Nothing Cut and Dried. There's nothing set up nothing cut and dried—nothing like a slate. If anyone suspects that a "machine" is trying to put over any measure, it’s a sure sign that the measure will he ripped to pieces in order to And the motive back of the "job.” Now, th the matter of the moder- atorship—Which, by the way, has be come an exceedingly Important of fice. arid requires that tills officer shall be traveling throughout the country during practically the entire year- much depends upon a man's theologi cal opinions it's a foregone conclu sion that a radical will not win, but neither wlii an ultra-conservative. The tendencies are all toward pro- gressiveness. but an out-and-out rad ical stands no sort of a chance. A sane, middle-of-the-road man will have the best chutiue. Opinions dif fer as to which of the candidates being suggested Is most satisfactory in this particular, for ail of them would, no doubt, insist tiiat the, measure up to this standard. Bodies Behind Radical. It wag recently charged by a Pres byterian newspaper that a definite at tempt Is being made by Union Theo logical Seminary, of New York, the Board of Home Missions and the Presbytery of New York to capture the assembly by electing a radical to the moderstorship. although this pa per was wise enough not to name the candidate of this alleged combination. The movement was characterized by this newspaper as the attempt to control the the days of R KV. CHARLES A. STEL- ZLE, one of the leaders in 11t <* Presbyterian Assem blies meeting:, already well known here. warped through prejudice, for, In tha first place, these interests could not elect anybody to this office; if they tried it, such an attempt would sim ply invite defeat; and. as already stated, a radical could not be elected, anyway. It is also rumored that a regularly organized effort has been under way for some months, under the direction of a group of conservative leaders — that is, conservative in their ideas s to methods of work so far as national administrative affairs are concerned— to elect a moderator who will smash the tendency In some of the boards toward specialization and modern "ef ficiency methods.” the contention be ing that these boards have no right to have new ideas on old problems, but that they must continue their work in the same manner that it has been done for 50 years. Much Campaigning. It is said that a definite visitation of Presbyteries and individual min isters has been in progress to further this movement, for some time, bur that this effort became so ponderous that It has fallen of its own weight. But even if it is not already dead, it would be unmercifully dealt with as the assembly itself for, be it said to ihe credit of the entire Church and to that of the commissioners who will be In Atlanta this week, every board and every official and every individual member get? an ab solutely square deal at the assembly, and no "movement” no matter how sincerely organized, or how worthily promoted, will stand a ghost of a chance if by any possibility it re sults in the unjust injury of any man or organization in the Church. Probable Candidates. Now as to some of the candidates who are being mentioned. The race will probably be confined to two, al though others may run. First there's Dr. S. S. Palmer, of Columbus. Ohio, who has been active as a member of the assembly's evangelistic commit tee and In several other important national enterprises, and who has been regiarded as one of the most satisfactory all-round pastors and preachers and executives in the coun try. He has been called to many leading churches, but has persisted in remaining in ColumbUB to develop a big church and institutional work in that city. Dr. Palmer will have the strong support of the Middle Western section of the country. -Then comes Dr. Waitland Alexan der, of the First Church of Pitts burg. who has the reputation of be ing a "millionaire minister”—at any rate, he is said to be very wealthy, but th fine thing about Dr. Alexander is that he spends large sums of hif» is reported, all social work in Pittsburg and